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...course, the players' union opposes a salary cap, but, as the installation of them in other major sports has proven, this obstacle is not insurmountable. The largest barrier is the resistance of a handful of owners. Whereas teams in smaller markets need to cut costs to survive, clubs playing in larger markets, such as the New York Yankees, the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Baltimore Orioles, could only be hurt by a cap. These teams generate millions of dollars each year through lucrative television deals with their local cable companies, and they have a large fan base...
...business investments in the Middle East, for example, provide him with direct access to Arab heads of state, on whom he may have a moderating influence, since many of Alwaleed's international partners are Jewish and support Israel. "Religion has never been a barrier between us," says Four Seasons Hotels Inc. CEO Isadore Sharp. "He mentioned once that we have similar value systems and moral principles...
...antilabor drugs, Bobbi had no special medical intervention; her treatment consisted mostly of downing vitamins, minerals and high-protein nutritional supplements. And while the risk of miscarriage, high blood pressure or other complications was always present, she stayed healthy right up to and through the magic 28-week barrier. Finally, last Tuesday, in the middle of her 30th week, the contractions that had been kept under control by medicine increased to 10 an hour...
That this is precisely what has happened is no surprise, given the powerful human urge to procreate. Some 100 women ages 50 and older have borne children in the U.S., and so have many more in other countries. In fact, the 60-year-old barrier has been broken several times. Last spring, a 63-year-old California woman named Arceli Keh gave birth (she had allegedly lied to the clinic about her age); so, in 1994, did an Italian woman...
...barrier remains: acupuncture springs from a system of faith that scientists find almost incomprehensible. The treatment rests on the Taoist belief that two life forces, yin and yang, combine to produce a vital life energy, called ch'i (or qi), that flows through the body along pathways known as meridians, which were charted thousands of years ago. People get sick when these life forces are knocked out of balance, and the job of the acupuncturists is to nudge ch'i back into equilibrium. They do this by pushing needles through the skin, sometimes several inches into the body, at specific...